Ontology & Data Engineering SME — TS/SCI Cleared

Vantor; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor seeks a Data Engineering Subject Matter Expert to lead enterprise data architectures and pipelines for Object-Based Intelligence mission requirements. You will shape data integration across ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic web tech, while ensuring governance, security, and interoperability across systems.

You’ll collaborate with ontologists, software, and government stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure data solutions and support AI/ML initiatives with reliable datasets and

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen with TS/SCI CI poly clearance.
• Design and implement enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration.
• Experience with structured, semi-structured, unstructured data.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerized data systems.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata, and lineage.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and deployment of data engineering solutions.
• Build scalable data pipelines for multi-source ingestion and transformation.
• Develop data integration frameworks: ontologies, knowledge graphs, RDF/OWL.
• Collaborate with engineers and government stakeholders to map requirements.
• Design data architectures for cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Establish data quality, governance, and metadata management processes.
• Improve processing performance using distributed frameworks.
• Support AI/ML initiatives with curated data pipelines.
• Create monitoring, validation and testing for data accuracy.
• Produce documentation and engineering standards; mentor team members.

Skills

TS/SCI with CI poly

Data engineering

ETL/ELT pipelines

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Knowledge graphs

Semantic Web

Stakeholder communication

Education

Advanced degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Spark

Kafka

NiFi

Airflow

RDF/OWL/SPARQL

Job description

Vantor seeks a Data Engineering Subject Matter Expert to lead enterprise data architectures and pipelines for Object-Based Intelligence mission requirements. You will shape data integration across ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic web tech, while ensuring governance, security, and interoperability across systems.

You’ll collaborate with ontologists, software, and government stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure data solutions and support AI/ML initiatives with reliable datasets and